Online donors help Little Village vendor

Paleta vendor receives check

Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune

Fidencio Sanchez and his wife, Eladia, take their last ceremonial walk toward the media on Sept. 21, 2016. They were presented with a GoFundMe check for $384,290 outside the Paleteria y Neveria Poncho shop, where Sanchez rented his paleta cart in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. At right are Jose Loera and Joel Cervantes, who were instrumental in helping to start the GoFundMe campaign.

Fidencio Sanchez and his wife, Eladia, take their last ceremonial walk toward the media on Sept. 21, 2016. They were presented with a GoFundMe check for $384,290 outside the Paleteria y Neveria Poncho shop, where Sanchez rented his paleta cart in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. At right are Jose Loera and Joel Cervantes, who were instrumental in helping to start the GoFundMe campaign.

A grateful Fidencio Sanchez and his wife, Eladia, accept a check for $384,290 on Sept. 21, 2016, during a news conference outside Paleteria y Neveria Poncho, where he rented his paletas cart in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. At left is Alfonso Pedraza, co-owner of the shop.

A grateful Fidencio Sanchez and his wife, Eladia, accept a check for $384,290 on Sept. 21, 2016, during a news conference outside Paleteria y Neveria Poncho, where he rented his paletas cart in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. At left is Alfonso Pedraza, co-owner of the shop.

Online donors have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to assist 89-year-old Fidencio Sanchez, who for more than two decades has pushed his cart through Little Village selling paletas and Mexican candies.